Subsidiary vs Addition - What's the difference?
subsidiary | addition |
Auxiliary or supplemental.
* (John Florio) (1553-1625)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
Secondary or subordinate.
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Of, or relating to a subsidy.
* (1805-1875)
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
(music) a subordinate theme
(uncountable) The act of adding anything.
Anything that is added.
(uncountable) The arithmetic operation of adding.
(music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
(legal) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq'.", "Robert Dale, '''Mason'''", "Thomas Way, ' of New York ".
(heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.
As nouns the difference between subsidiary and addition
is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while addition is addition.As an adjective subsidiary
is auxiliary or supplemental.subsidiary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
George Goodchild
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
Noun
(subsidiaries)addition
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(wikipedia addition)Noun
- The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
